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January 08, 2009

WIP, UFO, Blob

The thing about works in progress is that they look pretty awful until they're done.

No wonder non-knitters think what we spend hours and hours thinking about, working on, hoarding for and discussing, is bunk. I mean, what else could they think when all they see us knit are a bunch of blobs?

Like this thing. This, I am hoping, will become a nifty little vest. One with something along the lines of pin-tucking or whatever it is they call those hand sewn stitches I used to see along the lapels of men's suits. Of course, I'm not sure that this vest to be will be a true success or not. After all, it is still a work in progress, or a "UFO" as knitters call it.

Oooooooooooooooh!!! This better not be The Vest I've Been Searching For! You really do have a way of reading my mind (scary) and coming out with WAY better patterns than I've previously been able to find. That would mean I'll have to frog the one I've been working on for the last week, and Hubband will think I'm fer sure crazy (it really freaks him out when I frog. Sometimes I do it just to amuse myself.)

Oooooooooooooooh!!! This better not be The Vest I've Been Searching For! You really do have a way of reading my mind (scary) and coming out with WAY better patterns than I've previously been able to find. That would mean I'll have to frog the one I've been working on for the last week, and Hubband will think I'm fer sure crazy (it really freaks him out when I frog. Sometimes I do it just to amuse myself.)

Funny, I've always associated UFOs as being unfinished works not currently in progress (i.e. put down and forgotten or put down and weighing on one's conscience but not enough to tempt one away from the current WIPs).

Nah. I was using "UFOs" and "WIPs" when I was cranking out quilts, long before I was a knitter, too. And quilters are thought goofy for cutting apart perfectly good pieces of cloth just to sew the patches back together again.

I am new to knitting but it has ALWAYS been something I wanted to get into. I never thought anyone would think it was weird... Then my boyfriends family came along. I am teaching my boyfriends mom to crochet, so I didn't think it would be odd to bring my knitting with me to work on while she was mastering some new skills. But his WHOLE family gathered around me to watch and ask questions like, "how does it become something?" "how do you know where you are?" "how are you making something without a pattern?" "so it's essentially a series of knots that string together and make something?"
I swear it was the weirdest thing they'd ever seen. I never anticipated that it could be construed as "weird" until that moment in time.